I think it was really unfair that Davey Richards did not get most outstanding wrestler for 2010 for Wrestling Observer newsletter awards. He had atleast 4 ALMOST 5 star matches against 1. KENTA 2. Danielson 3. Shingo(my MOTY) 4. Austin Aries; besides so many other great matches against so other wrestlers in PWG, ROH and DGUSA. The only person who I found agreed with me is Eric Santamaria of Wrestling Roundtable. What are your views Will?

On my ballot I actually had Davey Richards as #2 behind KENTA (Danielson was #3). It should be noted that my main exposure to Richards this year was through DGUSA and ROH's TV show as I didn't follow ROH DVD releases as closely as I have in years past. KENTA/Nakajima was easily my favorite series of matches and KENTA's tag work with Taiji Ishimori I liked more than Richards's tag work with Eddie Edwards. But I could easily understand Richards being #1 and wouldn't have beena bit suprised to see him take the award.

I'm kind of confused by these days. Why does Meltzer have them rated at the day they were filmed instead of the day they aired? He usually always goes with the date a match aired as opposed to the day it was taped. You never seem him rate a Smackdown match with a date from the Tuesday it was recorded on.

Why do you mean by "have them rated"? The person who does this site puts those dates on the matches; it's not coming direct from Meltzer like that. Which I get. Smackdown! aires three days after it was taped. These matches air two months after wards. I think it's worth putting the original date when it that's much time.

I get what you're saying but it's nothing Meltzer is doing.

And the old Japanese ratings from the actual Observers are WAY MORE confusing that this in terms of figuring out when things are taped and when they aired. Which I've figured out when doing the PuroRatings blog.

i can let yoshino/aries slide some what as it was a heavily technical based match that was paced to be a 30 min match that seemed to end before it got going at like the 18 minute mark, but the mainevent rating of *** is just hard to fathom. It wasn't overkill like some dragon gate matches so i dont know what seemed to be the issue. Maybe its just weight of expectation and failure to deliver to them harmed some ratings.

woh! i cant believe how low the ratings for the iPPV. Obviously the star ratings are arbitrary but I'm almost tempted to rewatch the main matches to see if I overrated Aries/Yoshino and Hulk/Shingo and underrated Jacobs/Moxley

Bryan reviewed the 1/28 one. I think Dave mentioned that he hoped that have a review in the next issue (these shows were the same weekend as the Strikeforce show which Meltzer covered live and the Rumble).

To explain: the ratings from that page are from the 5/17/10 Observer. Those are from a very basic live report that Meltzer ran in the Observer. The ratings listed on this site are from the 7/12/10 Observer when the PPV aired and have far more details (more in line with how Meltzer's reviews are usually written). Hence, the ratings on this site are actually Meltzer's although both sets ran in the Observer.

hmm, i guess the Tozawa/Hulk MOTY talks was the typical people live overrating a match as the rating is below what the hype suggested. And am i the only one noticing that Metlzer has clearly gotten sick of the Dragon Gate style as he is clearly rating those big man tags less than he used to. Hell he rated the dragon gate 6 man from Supercard of Honor ***** stars but he clearly seems sick of the no selling fast paced style. About time if you ask me.

Totally agree with the previous comments, the trios match in 2006 was no way a 5 stars- no selling at all and to make matters worse the guy who take the mayor of the punishment (dragon kid) is the one that scores the pin, almost Hogan-like comeback!

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